The average American has a lot of things happening on Thanksgiving Day. With all of the football games going on around the country, chances are your favorite team is playing and not watching the game is not an option at all. Perhaps you have...
Thanksgiving, which is celebrated on the last Thursday of November, is a time for families to come together and enjoy the Thanksgiving feast. The first known celebration of Thanksgiving celebration was recorded by the Spanish on September 8, 1565, but the tradition that we model our version of the feast after...
What we now know has Halloween actually has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as the Samhain. Sometimes regarded as the Celtic New Year, the Samhain celebrated the end of the harvest season. During the time of the festival, Celtic people would take stock of all their supplies and slaughter the livestock in anticipation...
Every schoolchild knows that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, and his historic journey is said to have paved the way for the New World to exist as we know it today. Many cultures through North and South America celebrate Columbus Day, and we in the United States...
Few things are more breathtaking than the vast array of colors that one can witness during fall when the leaves on the trees begin to change colors. Although many vacationers may find that they used all of their allotted vacation days during the summer, autumn is a wonderful time to see the...
Although you may view it simply as a delightful three-day weekend at the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, Labor Day’s significance far surpasses that which you would be led to believe. The holiday, which is celebrated on the first Monday in September, is unlike many other federal holidays because of...
Part of the mystique of the venerable culinary method of barbecue involves closely-guarded secrets passed down through generations, long hours of trial and error to make just the right marinade, and other such practices that evoke images of a place where porches are actually used and lemonade cools the...
The United States of America has existed for well over two centuries as a country that values freedom as its highest ideal. When our forefathers, fed up with Great Britain’s oppressive rule and taxation without representation, created and adopted the Declaration of Independence, the United States of ...
If you are getting married, today you can find all the information you need to plan your wedding just by surfing on the internet. It used to be that wedding planners were the only ones privy to all the needed wedding information. However, the playing field has evened out in recent years and all you need is an...
Although world peace would certainly be wonderful, war is a sad reality of the way things work. Every country has armed forces compromised of brave men and women that are ready to lay down their lives to protect their country’s people and beliefs. The United States Military has long been a force committed...
